Jeremiah 21:6
“(Vers. 3 seqq.) And Jeremiah said to them: Thus shall you say to Zedekiah: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war (or the weapons of warfare) which are in your hands, wherewith you fight against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans that besiege you round about the walls: and I…”
Source: Septuagint
6And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.
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4Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
5And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.
— Jeremiah 21:6 —
7And after this, thus saith the Lord; I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.
8And thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.